The relationship between personality, defense styles, internet addiction disorder, and psychopathology in college students

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 672-676

  Floros, Georgios ^a,b   Siomos, Konstantinos ^b   Stogiannidou, Ariadni ^a   Giouzepas, Ioannis ^a   Garyfallos, Georgios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Association for the Study of Internet Addiction Disorder   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL DISEASE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERSONALITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL SKILLS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907284413     PISSN: 21522715     EISSN: 21522723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2014.0182     Document Type: Article

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